Buy online and get supermarket items delivered to your home. You can also phone shops where you normally buy food. Check if theywill deliver to your home (e.g. local fruit and vegetable shop). Makesure you can pay by card over the phone or online. Tell peopledelivering food that you are sick. Ask them to leave your shopping atthe front door.

Include some soft foods on your shopping list that you can eat if youhave a sore throat.  If you have a fever, drink lots of water or othernon-alcoholic drinks.

To ‘self-isolate’ means you must stay at home. Thisstops you giving the virus to other people. Do not letvisitors into your home. Do not share food with otherpeople that you have made. You need to go home straight away. Do not goshopping for food before you go home.

COVID-19: Food for isolation

Ask a friend or relative to buy food and other items you may need. You will need to make a shopping list. Phone, text or email your list. Donot give them the list on paper that you have touched. Ask them toleave your shopping at the front door.

Purchase takeaway meals from restaurants or cafes that can bedelivered to your door. Use a delivery app or phone them directly. Make sure you tell them thatyou are sick. Do not have any contact with the person delivering yourmeal. Ask them to leave your meal at the front door.

If you can't order online or get someone to shop for you, call The Community RecoveryHotline on 1800 173 349. This service delivers food to people who are by themselvesand don’t have social support.

You may start to feel sick during the 14 days at home

There are different ways of making sure you have enough food during your 14 days at home.

If you start to feel sick, call your doctor or the National Coronavirus Helpline on 1800 020 080 any time.If you find it difficult to breathe, call an ambulance on 000.

any fresh foods you want to eat in the first week (for example: fruit, vegetables, eggs, milk,yoghurt)foods you need that are stored in the cupboard, including snacks and drinks (for example:breakfast cereal, rice, pasta, pasta sauce, tea, coffee)frozen and canned foods to eat in the second week (for example: cans of chickpeas,lentils, tuna, frozen mixed vegetables, frozen meals)foods to eat if you get sick (for example: canned or fresh soups, canned fruit, rice pudding).

Step 1. Check what foods you already have in your refrigerator and kitchen cupboards.  Plan to eat your fresh foods first.  

Step 2. Make a list of extra foods you need to last 14 days. Choose mainly healthy foods. The list should include:

My shopping list

If you are on your ownWhen you are feeling well, cook large meals. Freezeyour leftovers in single serve containers to eat later.Have ready-made frozen meals to eat if you becometoo sick to cook.

Organise ‘virtual meals’ with your friends or relatives.You can use an app like Zoom or Skype.

Write a shopping l ist

Fresh foods

Frozen foods Foods if I get sick

Foods for the cupboard

Take a photo of your shopping list.  Send it to afriend to buy your food.

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